Clinical Documentation Specialist

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time, 38 hours per week

Location: Liverpool Hospital

Position Classification: Health Manager Level 1

Remuneration: $84, $112,331.00per week

Requisition ID: REQ598430

Application Close Date: 07/09/2025

Interview Date Range: 10/09/2025 – 17/09/2025

Contact Details: Sue Josikovic – |

About the Opportunity

Step into a role where your expertise transforms healthcare from the inside out. As a Clinical Documentation Specialist, you'll be the vital link between clinical teams and accurate patient records—ensuring diagnoses, procedures, and treatments are clearly captured and reflected. From auditing electronic medical records to leading education initiatives, your work will directly impact the quality of care and data integrity across the hospital.

Collaborate with doctors, nurses, coders, and educators to drive documentation excellence, support Activity Based Management, and shape future clinical practices. If you're passionate about precision, thrive in multidisciplinary environments, and want to make a measurable difference, this is your opportunity to lead change and elevate standards.

If you're passionate about clinical integrity, thrive in electronic medical record environments, and excel at engaging teams in transformative practices, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact. Apply now

What You'll be Doing

The Clinical Documentation Specialist role is responsible for conducting ongoing documentation reviews to facilitate improvements to clinical documentation to support quality care and accurate clinical coding to reflect the level of service provided to patients.

Where You'll Be Working

Liverpool Hospital, founded in 1813, is the major health service for south-western Sydney, providing services to the local government area of Liverpool City Council as well as district services to residents and visitors in the area. It also provides a range of state-wide services in areas such as critical care and trauma, neonatal intensive care and brain injury rehabilitation.

The Hospital provides a health service of international standing, with 23 operating theatres, capacity for 877 beds, diagnostic and imaging services, emergency and trauma care, maternity, paediatric, cancer care, mental health, ambulatory care, allied health and medical and surgical services from birth to aged care.

Liverpool Hospital is currently undergoing a major redevelopment. The $790 million Liverpool Health and Academic Precinct (LHAP) project will provide enhanced facilities and an increased capacity to meet future significant population growth for South Western Sydney.

Liverpool Hospital is a principal referral and teaching Hospital of the UNSW Sydney and the Western Sydney University and also welcome students from over 20 universities and colleges.

Located in the heart of Liverpool City, the hospital is close to public transport, shopping centres and eateries.

How to Apply

To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible. View our application guide for information on how to respond to criteria and improve your application.

• Relevant tertiary qualifications or recent extensive working experience as a Clinician, Health Information Manager, Clinical Coder, Clinical Coding Educator/Auditor or documentation improvement specialist.
• Can you provide examples of how you've effectively communicated and delivered presentations to diverse clinical teams, including senior staff, to support documentation or process improvements?
• Describe a time when you successfully implemented a change management initiative within a healthcare setting. What strategies did you use to engage stakeholders and ensure sustainable outcomes?
• How have you applied your analytical and organisational skills to improve clinical documentation, interpret complex data sets, and contribute to Activity Based Management or health service funding outcomes?

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Additional Information

Salary Packaging

South Western Sydney Local Health District employees are able to enjoy the benefits of salary packing. Visit Smart Salary for more details.

Health & Fitness

South Western Sydney Local Health District employees receive discounted Gym Membership/Corporate Wellbeing Programs, including Fitness Passport.

Transforming Your Experience

Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.

To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.

At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don't just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.

SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people's rights. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported and included in their care. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.

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